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Philosopher, historian, Emeritus Director of Studies at EHESS, former editor-in-chief of Le Débat magazine
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Essay in Contemporary Psychology
A New Age of the Personality
In Le Débat (1998/2 No 99)
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Exploring the society of individuals
In Le Débat (2020/3 No 210)
Secularism: The comeback and the controversy
In Le Débat (2020/3 No 210)
Macron, year II: A year of crises
An exchange between Marcel Gauchet and Nicolas Roussellier
In Le Débat (2019/4 No 206)
The roundabout revelation
Notes on a unique crisis
In Le Débat (2019/2 No 204)
On Aveuglements: religions, guerres, civilisations by Jean-François Colosimo
- By Régis Debray,
- Marcel Gauchet,
- Christian Jambet
- et al.
In Le Débat (2018/5 No 202)
Macron, year one
Marcel Gauchet, Philippe Raynaud: A conversation
- By Philippe Raynaud
- and Marcel Gauchet
In Le Débat (2018/4 No 201)
The end of masculine domination
In Le Débat (2018/3 No 200)
The war of truths
In Le Débat (2017/5 No 197)
A strange victory
Gilles Finchelstein, Marcel Gauchet: A conversation
In Le Débat (2017/4 No 196)
Why “the advent of democracy”?
In Le Débat (2017/1 No 193)
Left and Right: Pre-election implosions
Olivier Duhamel and Marcel Gauchet: A conversation
- By Olivier Duhamel
- and Marcel Gauchet
In Le Débat (2016/4 No 191)
A French misfortune?
Alain Minc and Marcel Gauchet: A conversation
- By Alain Minc
- and Marcel Gauchet
In Le Débat (2016/3 No 190)
National democracies and global finance
In Le Débat (2016/2 No 189)
« We Renounced to Understand the World »
- By Marcel Gauchet,
- Interviewed by Olivier de France
In Revue internationale et stratégique (2015/3 No 99)
President Hollande’s Third Year: The obsession of 2017
Marcel Gauchet and Thomas Wieder: A conversation
- By Marcel Gauchet
- and Thomas Wieder
In Le Débat (2015/4 No 186)
The resources of Islamic fundamentalism
In Le Débat (2015/3 No 185)
Who are history’s actors?
In Le Débat (2015/2 No 184)
The imaginary child
In Le Débat (2015/1 No 183)
The Year of Revelation
- By Alain Duhamel
- and Marcel Gauchet
In Le Débat (2014/4 No 181)
The Usefulness of Small Tales
In Le Débat (2014/1 No 178)
From Sarkozyism to Hollandeism
Marcel Gauchet, Jean-François Kahn: an exchange
- By Marcel Gauchet
- and Jean-François Kahn
In Le Débat (2013/4 No 176)
The Paradoxes of an Election
An Exchange
- By Marcel Gauchet
- and Roland Hureaux
In Le Débat (2012/4 No 171)
Secular Religions: Origin, Nature, and Fate
In Le Débat (2011/5 No 167)
Blurring the Lines
Marcel Gauchet and Claude Imbert: An Exchange
- By Marcel Gauchet
- and Claude Imbert
In Le Débat (2011/4 No 166)
Representative Democracy Has Given its Final Word
In Le Débat (2011/2 No 164)
Facing the Crisis: Sarkozy and French Political Forces
Marcel Gauchet, Jacques Julliard: and Exchange
- By Jacques Julliard
- and Marcel Gauchet
In Le Débat (2010/4 No 161)
Three Figures of the Individual
In Le Débat (2010/3 No 160)
Towards a “Society of Ignorance”?
In Le Débat (2009/4 No 156)
On the Correct Use of Human Rights
In Le Débat (2009/1 No 153)
A Year of Sarkozysm
Marcel Gauchet and Michel Winock: an Exchange
- By Marcel Gauchet
- and Michel Winock
In Le Débat (2008/4 No 151)
Combat and Understanding
In Le Débat (2008/3 No 150)
From Critique to Auto-Critique
The Enlightenment’s Combat Today
In Le Débat (2008/3 No 150)
A Generation in Review
In Le Débat (2008/2 No 149)
Right and Left: The New Situation
Marcel Gauchet and Alain-Gérard Slama: An Exchange
- By Marcel Gauchet
- and Alain-Gérard Slama
In Le Débat (2007/4 No 146)
A Period of Gloom
An Exchange
- By Marcel Gauchet
- and René Rémond
In Le Débat (2006/4 No 141)
Everything about Nothing, Nothing about Everything
In Le Débat (2006/2 No 139)
Counter-Power, Meta-Power, Anti-Power
In Le Débat (2006/1 No 138)
Book-Montage: Africa Suffering from its States
- By Matthew Lockwood
- and Marcel Gauchet
In Le Débat (2005/5 No 137)
How Europe Divides France
An Exchange
- By Marcel Gauchet
- and René Rémond
In Le Débat (2005/4 No 136)
The Redefinition of Stages of Life
In Le Débat (2004/5 No 132)
The Child of Desire
In Le Débat (2004/5 No 132)
A New Relation of Forces
Marcel Gauchet, René Rémond: An Exchange
- By Marcel Gauchet
- and René Rémond
In Le Débat (2004/4 No 131)
Socialism Redefined
In Le Débat (2004/4 No 131)
The European Problem
In Le Débat (2004/2 No 129)
On Religion, Its Permanence, and the Possibility of Transcending It
An Exchange
- By Régis Debray
- and Marcel Gauchet
In Le Débat (2003/5 No 127)
What Religion Took Away
In Revue du MAUSS (2003/2 No 22)
Politics and Religion: Twelve Suggestions in Response to Allain Caillé
In Revue du MAUSS (2003/2 No 22)
The Right and the Left, One Year Later
Marcel Gauchet, René Rémond: An Exchange
- By Marcel Gauchet
- and René Rémond
In Le Débat (2003/4 No 126)
Faces of the Other
The Trajectory of Utopian Consciousness
In Le Débat (2003/3 No 125)
The Trotskyist Enigma
- By Stéphane Courtois,
- Marcel Gauchet,
- Krzysztof Pomian,
- et al.
In Le Débat (2003/1 No 123)
After the Battle: The Right, the Left, the Institutions
Marcel Gauchet, René Rémond: An Exchange
- By Marcel Gauchet
- and René Rémond
In Le Débat (2002/4 No 121)
Political Philosophy Tasks
In Revue du MAUSS (2002/1 No 19)
The Two Sources of the Process of Individualization
In Le Débat (2002/2 No 119)
The Jacobin Heritage and the Problem of Representation
In Le Débat (2001/4 No 116)
Religious Beliefs and Political Beliefs
In Le Débat (2001/3 No 115)
The Secret Ways of Liberal Society
In Le Débat (2000/4 No 111)
When Human Rights Become a Policy
In Le Débat (2000/3 No 110)
Russian and Balkan History
- By Wladimir Berelowitch,
- Marie-Elizabeth Ducreux,
- Marcel Gauchet,
- et al.
In Le Débat (1999/5 No 107)
The Widening of the Historical Object
In Le Débat (1999/1 No 103)
Essay in Contemporary Psychology (II)
Redefining the Unconscious
In Le Débat (1998/3 No 100)
To Read
The History of Art
- By Jean-Loup Champion,
- Marcel Gauchet,
- Stéphane Guégan,
- et al.
In Le Débat (1998/3 No 100)
Essay in Contemporary Psychology
A New Age of the Personality
In Le Débat (1998/2 No 99)
To Read
In Le Débat (1997/5 No 97)
The Level Rises as the Book Drops
In Le Débat (1996/5 No 92)
The Elite, the People, and Opinion
Alain Minc, Interview with Marcel Gauchet
- By Alain Minc
- and Marcel Gauchet
In Le Débat (1995/3 No 85)
Country Folk in Tears
In Le Débat (1990/3 No 60)
Nasty Surprises for One of the Forgotten — The Class Struggle
In Le Débat (1990/3 No 60)
Democratic Pacification and Civic Desertion
In Le Débat (1990/3 No 60)
In the Love of Nature, the Hatred of Men
In Le Débat (1990/3 No 60)
Malaise in Democracy. School, Culture, and Individualism
Alain Finkielkraut and Marcel Gauchet: an Exchange
- By Alain Finkielkraut
- and Marcel Gauchet
In Le Débat (1988/4 No 51)
Word-moments
The Five Languages of the Zeitgeist
- By Pierre Nora
- and Marcel Gauchet
In Le Débat (1988/3 No 50)
The School Goes to School
Constraints and Contradictions of Democratic Individualism
In Le Débat (1985/5 No 37)
Concerning Religion (Continued)
In Le Débat (1984/5 No 32)
The End of Religion?
In Le Débat (1984/1 No 28)
The Two Bodies of the King — In Power Without a Body
Christianity and Politics 2
In Le Débat (1981/8 No 15)
The Two Bodies of the King — In Power Without a Body. Christianity and Politics
In Le Débat (1981/7 No 14)
Human Rights are Not a Political Object
In Le Débat (1980/3 No 3)
The Mysteries of the Bestseller or the Fortunes of Virtue
In Le Débat (1980/2 No 2)
Inexistentialism
In Le Débat (1980/1 No 1)